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+Please make sure that the boxes below are checked before you submit your issue. Thank you!
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+- [ ] Check that you are up-to-date with the master branch of Keras. You can update with:
+pip install git+git://github.com/fchollet/keras.git --upgrade --no-deps
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+- [ ] If running on Theano, check that you are up-to-date with the master branch of Theano. You can update with:
+pip install git+git://github.com/Theano/Theano.git --upgrade --no-deps
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+- [ ] Provide a link to a GitHub Gist of a Python script that can reproduce your issue (or just copy the script here if it is short).
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